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Word Lens

Word Lens is a real-time translation app that turns your iPhone into “the dictionary of the future,” optical character recognition and augmented reality to translate text. he app is free in the iTunes Store, with various language pairs available for in-app purchase. The first pair released is Spanish-English, with more coming soon.

I work in the museum exhibit design field and I can imagine using this as a means to provide international visitors the possibility to read all our info on the fly without producing extraneous material.